I saw this quote today to ‘promote what you love, don’t bash what you hate’. I TRY to focus my content on Intuitive Eating, Health At Every Size, and improving mental wellbeing and sometimes I’m going to raise awareness about the realities of diet culture and diet mentality and it might be hard to hear. I’m sorry if I ruffled any feathers yesterday, I know this is a touchy subject! I also know when I get ‘offended’ by something it’s usually because there is some truth to it and its a signal I need to do some soul searching on it.
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We’ve been fed a ton of lies about health, weight, body size, body image and worth. We’ve spent so much time, money, and energy to live in a smaller body and what has that gotten us? Anyone else out there dieted for the last 5, 10, 20 years? Did you ever achieve and maintain all the benefits it promises? Did you become a professional dieter too 😅
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Studies show that within 2-5 years, up to 97% of diets fail. This means the weight is regained and up to 2/3 of people regain more weight than where they started. The numbers are shocking but it was what I needed to hear to finally stop dieting. When I took a step back I saw how damaging it all is mentally, physically, and spiritually.
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We can pursue health and focus on health promoting behaviors without the main goal of weight loss - this is the concept of Health At Every Size. I have yet to see someone improve their body image by losing weight so the work actually begins within. Some of our first steps is recognizing the fatphobia or fat discrimination we learned along our journey and begin practicing acceptance and compassion. We were all born intuitive eaters and can return to a place where food is just food, it’s neither good nor bad. There’s a place for all food like this açaí flavored soft serve in a papaya bowl without worry, guilt, or shame no matter what size your body is. All bodies need fuel. And they all deserve tasty food.

Molten lava cake- my sis though it was gonna crack 😂🍫
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Today let’s talk about the concept of ‘treating yourself’. We allow ourselves to eat treat foods on special occasions, like Christmas or birthdays. For those of us with eating disorders, this can make us very uncomfortable, but we can tell ourselves, “it’s okay, it’s for a special occasion.” But, what about the times where dessert is available but we don’t have a reason? It can be extremely hard to have the dessert you want for no other reason than you want it. It’s important to realize that we don’t need an excuse to treat ourselves. We are allowed to have dessert whenever and however we want, whether it be for Christmas or for a random Tuesday. •
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Stay Strong 💪🏼✨

It’s important to me when I am going through a lot, to fall back on things that help build me back up. I fall back on drawing and watching movies and working out and doing yoga and drinking a cup of tea. I love pink (a baby pink and it’s a new thing I have found about myself) and I am at the point where I want to only live my life. I don’t care if other people party, I blatantly do not want to and that is fine because it’s not for me. So don’t judge me because you don’t know me. I don’t even know me yet. But I plan on figure r out every day.

My hands were small and cold then my hands were nervous fidgeting clenched then my hands loosened left and lapsed. Now they are large, now shifting, now flickering now released. /
My threatened breath retreated now it pours. All the way into my spine. My toes, my strange gaze. My ruined cities, my beach laid clean by waves. /
All that sand in my chest is out. I can walk on it, I can lift it with my hands. My weathered hands.

So I haven’t been the most motivated this past weekend with my workouts, diet and other things.. not how I wanted it to be. I see how well things go for others and I was discouraged. But tonight’s call pushed me to get off the couch, out of my pjs and move my ass! I restarted over a couple times because the doubt was pushing me but ladies and gents not how results happen, that’s not how I want to be or show people I just gave up so easily. You ladies involved in this group I thank you for your inspiration, your motivation and just being you! 💜✌️💪 #sumosquats#chriscornell